Death, Memory and Material Culture

by Elizabeth Hallam and Jenny Hockey

- How do the living maintain ongoing relationships with the dead in Western societies?- How have the residual belongings of the dead been used to evoke memories?- Why has the body and its material environment remained so important in memory-making?Objects, images, practices, and places remind us of the deaths of others and of our own mortality. At the time of death, embodied persons disappear from view, their relationships with others come under threat...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1859733794
• ISBN13: 9781859733790
• Release Date: December 2001
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.4" x 9.3"